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                <h2>Launch</h2>
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                    Audiveris is now available through Java Web Start:
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                        Simply click on this Launch button:
                        <script>deployJava.createWebStartLaunchButton("https://audiveris.kenai.com/jnlp/launch.jnlp", 1.7);</script>
                        (assuming JavaScript is enabled in the browser)
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                    <li>
                        Or click on this
                        <a href="jnlp/launch.jnlp">Link</a>
                        (assuming JNLP MIME type is properly defined as application/x-java-jnlp-file)
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Or type this command from a terminal
                        (mind the 's' in https):
                        <code>javaws https://audiveris.kenai.com/jnlp/launch.jnlp</code>
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                    <b><i>Audiveris</i></b> 
                    is an open-source <b><i>Optical Music Recognition</i></b> 
                    software which processes the image of a music sheet to 
                    automatically provide <i>symbolic</i> music information in 
                    <b>MusicXML</b> standard.
                    <br/>
                    This opens the door to many tools (score editor, MIDI 
                    sequencer, ...) which can use this symbolic data for such 
                    tasks as edit, play, print, re-publish, transpose, query, 
                    etc.
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                <p>Main features:</p>

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                    <li>Printed music as input (no handwritten music)</li>
                    <li>Standard music notation (no tablatures yet)</li>
                    <li>Input formats: PDF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, ...</li>
                    <li>Output format: 
                        <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML">
                            MusicXML</a> version 3</li>
                    <li>Any number of pages per score, of parts per system,
                        of staves per part, of voices per measure</li>
                    <li>Internal neural network trainable by end user</li>
                    <li>Available on Windows and Linux</li>
                    <li>GNU GPL V2 license</li>
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            <article id="news">
                <h2>News</h2>
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                    <li>Audiveris V4.3 available through <a href="docs/manual/handbook.html#jws">
                            Java Web Start</a> for Windows and Ubuntu
                        <div class="creation-date">Nov 26, 2013</div>
                    </li>
                    <li><a href="docs/manual/AudiverisMusicHackDayVienna2013.pdf">
                            Presentation</a> at
                        <a href="http://www.classicalmusichackday.org/">
                            Classical Music HackDay 2013</a>
                        <div class="creation-date">February 1, 2013</div>
                    </li>
                    <li><a href="docs/manual/AudiverisFosdem2012.v3.pdf">Presentation at FOSDEM 2012</a>
                        <div class="creation-date">January 11, 2012</div>
                    </li>
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            <article id="support">
                <h2>Support</h2>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="http://kenai.com/jira/browse/AUDIVERIS">JIRA issue tracker</a>
                        to manage bugs and improvements.                        
                    </li>
                    <li><a href="http://kenai.com/projects/audiveris/forums/message-forum">Community forum</a>
                        for informal discussions
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                <h2>Examples</h2>
                <p><a href="http://www.makemusic.com/musicxml/music/example-set">
                        MakeMusic</a>
                    site provides representative examples of PDF scores and 
                    MusicXML data.
                </p> 
                <p>This
                    <a href="http://kenai.com/projects/audiveris/pages/RecordareExamples">
                        Wiki</a> details how Audiveris can be used to 
                    process each of these examples.
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                <h2>Development</h2>
                <p>Audiveris is developed in Java, and invokes Google Tesseract
                    (C++) for text OCR.</p>
                <p>Project components (source code, binaries, issues tracking, forum)
                    are available on <a href="http://kenai.com/projects/audiveris/">
                        Kenai</a>.</p>
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            <article id="help">
                <h2>Help wanted for</h2>
                <ul>
                    <li>Coupling with <a href="http://musescore.org">MuseScore</a>
                        to edit, print, play, etc</li>
                    <li>Cloud computing to provide "OMR as a service"</li>
                    <li>Automated evaluation of transcription results</li>
                    <li>Microedition features to enable crowd-sourcing</li>
                </ul>
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                <h2>Evolutions</h2>
                <ul>
                    <li>Test campaign on large data set?</li>
                    <li>Missing features: cue notes, endings, etc?</li>
                    <li>Ability to move &amp; resize virtual glyphs?</li>
                    <li>Map/reduce for scores with lots of pages?
                    <li>Text OCR extended to musical symbols?</li>
                    <li>Support for low-quality scans?</li>
                </ul>
                See details on dedicated
                <a href="http://kenai.com/projects/audiveris/pages/Home">Wiki</a>
                and share your expectations on Audiveris 
                <a href="http://kenai.com/projects/audiveris/forums/message-forum">forum</a>!
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